ENG 102 Carter Spring 2017: Find Reference Resources

Reference Resources

Reference Resources can quickly provide you with background information about people, places, and/or events. Prior knowledge about the time period, events, etc. can help provide a foundation on which arguments can be built. This page provides information about just a few of the many resources at the STLCC Libraries. For help accessing these or other resources, contact a friendly librarian!

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The ARTstor Digital Library provides more than one million images with tools for teaching and research. Its collections comprise contributions from outstanding museums, photographers, libraries, scholars, photo archives, and artists and artists' estates from all over the world. The collections encompass a wide variety of subject areas, including art, architecture, music, religion, anthropology, literature, world history, American Studies, Asian Studies, Classical Studies, Medieval Studies, Renaissance Studies, and more.

Users can do keyword or advanced searching, or browse by collection, classification, or geography. Results can be sorted by date, creator, or title, and filtered by geography, date range or classification. Users can view images and image data, zoom in on and pan images, and experience 360 degree panoramas through QTVR images. Organize images into groups, or print and save images and related data to other hardware (e.g. CD, memory stick, hard drive). Upload and manage personal images and sound files in ARTstor. Tools for sharing include saving, emailing, and printing citations for images or image groups; downloading image groups for use in presentation software such as PowerPoint, KeyNote, and ARTstor's Offline Image Viewer (OIV); exporting citations for images or image groups into EndNote, ProCite, RefWorks, Reference Manager, or a text file; and generating URL links to images and groups for integration with local course management software and sharing with students.

Oxford Music Online allows users to access and cross-search multiple music reference resources including Grove Music Online, the leading online resource for music research; The Oxford Companion to Music (2002), with articles on composers, performers, conductors, individual works, instruments and notation, forms and genres; and The Oxford Dictionary of Music, Second Edition, Revised (2006) with content geared toward undergraduates and general users. Oxford Music Online also includes Colin Larkin's Encyclopedia of Popular Music, a biographical encyclopedia of rock, pop, and jazz artists, covering popular music from 1900 to the present.

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Written by an international roster of more than 300 authors, the Encyclopedia documents and interprets the books read by children throughout the world. With a global perspective that pays attention to significant international trends and the multicultural expansion of the field, it includes brief biographies of every major author and illustrator. Also included are feature essays on all genres of children's literature, individual works, and prominent trends and themes, as well as general essays on the traditions of children's literature in many countries throughout the world.

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Online reference library that provides access to a growing selection of reference books.

Online reference library that provides access to a growing selection of reference books. Includes encyclopedias, dictionaries, thesauri, books of quotations, and a range of subject-specific titles from art to accountancy and literature to law. Credo Reference generates a network of cross-references that provide an easy-to-follow trail to related information contained anywhere within the library.

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Explores the history and culture of African Americans and the greater Black Diaspora.

The African American Experience includes new material from major multivolume print reference sets as well as older reference books and monographs, many now available in electronic format for the first time. It also includes primary documents (such as manuscripts, speeches, court cases, quotations, advertisements, statistics, and other papers), over 4,000 searchable interviews from the WPA Slave Narratives, and black scholarship from the late 1700s to the early 1970s.

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Explores the histories and contemporary cultures of the indigenous peoples of the United States.

The American Indian Experience explores the histories and contemporary cultures of the indigenous peoples of the United States. It includes more than 150 volumes of scholarship and reference content, hundreds of primary documents, and thousands of images. Covers pre-Columbian to the present day and all geographical areas of the United States.

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The Latino American Experience focuses on the history and culture of Latinos living in the United States. Its content spans from the pre-Columbian Indigenous civilizations of the Americas, through the Spanish and Mexican settlement of much of what is now the United States, to the triumphs and challenges facing present-day U.S. Latinos.

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Features extensive coverage of the 20th century, the Ancient Mediterranean, Ancient Near East and Asia as well as the Middle Ages, the Renaissance, the modern Middle East and Latin America. History Resource Center: World moves chronologically from antiquity to the present and geographically around the globe. Provides integrated searching of full-text periodicals, reference works, primary documents and scholarly analysis.

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American History in Video provides a collection of online video for the study of American history -- 2,000 hours and more than 5,000 titles on completion. This collection is a collaboration with A&E Television Networks and features documentaries and series from The History Channel®, A&E Network®, and Biography®.

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Films on Demand is a collection of more than 6000 educational videos available for video streaming to the computer desktop. Titles are organized into 20 subject folders. Individual Learning Objects for each title subdivide the videos into smaller segments.

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